Gerhard Landmann (businessman)

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Gerhard Landmann (born May 6, 1904 in Braunschweig ; † June 29, 1933 there ) was a German businessman and SS man.

Life

After completing his commercial training, Landmann worked in various positions. Among other things, he worked as an office candidate for the Braunschweig City Council. The anti-democratic nationalist joined the NSDAP as early as the 1920s and the SS in 1932. During a large manhunt in the Eichtal working-class district of Brunswick for illegal leaflets by the SS auxiliary police, Landmann was accidentally fatally hit by his own people. This was immediately blamed on the communists and gave the National Socialist government of Klagges the opportunity to use the most brutal means of violence against political opponents. In the Free State of Braunschweig , a systematic wave of persecution disguised as a police manhunt began, which became known as the "Farmer Wave". On the day of Landmann's state funeral, the SS murdered eleven communists and trade unionists in Rieseberg in "retaliation" . More blood crimes and hundreds of special court trials with draconian sentences followed. In August 1933, the National Socialists renamed the so-called “Red Castle”, the publishing headquarters of the Braunschweiger Volksfreund , which they had occupied since March 1933 , to “Gerhard-Landmann-Haus”. After the end of the war, the building was returned to the SPD publishing house and the Nazi name was removed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rieseberg Memorial ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on gedenkstaette-friedenskapelle.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedenkstaette-friedenskapelle.de
  2. ^ Chronicle of the city of Braunschweig for August 1, 1933
personal data
SURNAME Landmann, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and SS man
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1933
Place of death Braunschweig